Malvacecc.] 
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usually about 2 lines rarely only 1 line long. Carpels grey- or pale-brown, with addition of their valvate- 
bifid beak about 1J line long, rarely reduced to the length of but 1 line, flattened at the back by the promi¬ 
nent and slightly crested lateral angles of the pericarp, tardily dehiscent along the inner suture, with an 
infra-terminal foramen at the point of their attachment to the columella. Seeds almost filling the cavity of 
the thin pericarp, and thus isomorphous, trigonous, gibbose at the back, pointed at the apex. Testa dark- 
brown, smooth, rather opaque. Albumen scantily surrounding the embryo, white, fleshy-mucilaginous. 
Cotyledons broad, incurved-folded, hardly longer than the ascending radicle. 
Only by the careful comparison of a long series of specimina the indentity of the two Lawrencise could 
be ascertained. 
In flower during the later part of the spring and early in the summer. 
Sect. III. Eusida. 
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Flowers bisexual. Petals exserted. Free parts of the filaments arising from the summit of the 
staminal column. Ovules in each cell solitary. Stigmas terminal, capitellate. Carpels coherent, 
finally secedent. 
Sida corrug*ata, Lindt . in Mitch. Three Looped, ii. 12; S. fibulifera, Lindt. 1. c. ii. 45; S. filiformis, 
A. Cunn. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 361; S. pisiformis, A. Cunn. 1. c. ; S. nematopoda, S. interstans, S. spodo- 
chroma, S. trichopoda, F. M. in Lmncea, xxv. 382-384 ; S. intricata, F. M. in Transact. Phil. Soc. Viet. i. 
12; S. humillima, F. M. 1. c . 
Suffmtescent; branches erect, diffused or procumbent, tomentose- or velutinous- or scattered-starhairy; 
leaves lobeless, cordate- or orbicular- or oblong-ovate, or narrow- or linear-oblong, densely or scantily star- 
hairy or above glabrous, crenate or serrate or indistinctly toothed; stipules linear-setaceous , long-persistent ; 
pedicels thin-fliform or capillary , usually solitary, jointed; lobes of the calyx deltoid; petals small, yellow, 
oblique-obcordate, longer than the calyx, slightly downy at the unguis; styles 5-8, connate towards the base, 
terminated by capitellate stigmas; ovaries with single ovules; limit-column pyramidal-subulate; carpels 5-8, 
as long as or somewhat longer than the calyx, coherent into a depressed-globose fruity ovate-trigonous, 
somewhat pointed, awnless, reticulated at the commissural faces, hardly bursting; seeds brown. 
In desert tracts, also on basaltic downs and ridges; from Bacchus Marsh to the north-western part of 
the Colony of Victoria; thence through the greater part of the Colony of South Australia, through Central 
Australia and through almost the whole of the drier portion of tropical Australia, advancing to the Mur¬ 
chison River, the Victoria River, the Carpentaria Gulf and southward again to New England. 
A half-shrub, attaining the height of 2 rarely of 3 feet, often of humble growth, unusually variable in 
stature, hairiness (although never long-hairy), form of leaves, size of flowers and shape and markings of the 
fruit. Leaves usually from J-14 inch long, rarely 2J inches or in the variety intricata only 2-6 lines 
long, blunt or truncate at the apex, rounded and entire at the base, rarely very short-lobed towards the lower 
extremity, beneath rather prominently nerved, finely or grossly, copiously or remotely, more or less bluntly 
or acutely toothed; the upper ones shorter stalked, the lower ones usually on long petioles. Stipules from 
1-4 or even to 6 lines long', linear- or setaceous- rarely lanceolate-subulate. Peduncles rarely developed; 
producing, if present, a few-flowered corymb with stipule-like bracteoles. Pedicels axillary and terminal, 
frequently solitary, from a very few lines to fully 1J rarely 2 inches long; their lower joint oftener glabrous 
than downy; the upper joint somewhat bent, deciduous and almost always short. Calyx campanulate-turbi- 
nate, when flower-bearing 1J-2 lines long, in the variety intricata only about 1 line long; when fruit-bearing 
more rotate, somewhat lengthened and particularly widened. Petals 2-4 lines long, either broad- or cuneate- 
ob'cordate, very tender, veined, except the base glabrous. Column of stamens pyramidal-subulate, glabrous 
or downy, 1-1 \ line long. Free portion of filaments short, glabrous. Anthers 12 or more, line broad. 
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